Just Sharing a Story...

A couple weeks ago, My son Nick's teacher called my wife up to the school to ask her a question. Seems his class, first graders, had a writing assignment. They were supposed to write a fan letter to someone they look up to. The kids in his class wrote letters to sports stars, movie stars, musicians, all folks that you would think a first grader would think were "cool". Not my son.

He wrote his fan letter to Bill Dance. He asked him in his letter what his favorite buzzbait was and what other lures he liked to use. He also told him that if he'd like to see pictures of his fish he's caught, come here to OGF and take a look.

The teacher called my wife in because she had never heard of Bill Dance and that this was the first time EVER any student of hers had written a fan letter to a fisherman.

We've watched his show for years and I guess it really has made an impression on him. Especially the crappie segments. He does always ask if we can go bass fishing where Bill Dance goes too. LOL.

Just thought I'd share how absolutely crazy my son is about fishing. I don't know where he gets it from....LOL.

That is a cool story. Let us know if you hear anything back from Bill.

My youngest son is in kindergarten and last year in pre-school they had show and tell days that each kid took turns. Well my boy decided that he wanted me to bring in my fishing gear along with the pike that I have mounted at home. So I had to show up at school one afternoon with the tackle box and mount. It was pretty cool as he absolutely loves the fishing as well.

he's been bitten,for sure,thanks to his dad.that's cool.
reminds me of myself when i was in school.most essays or other such things i had to do,usually were fishing,hunting related,cause that's all i was interested in(aside from the occasionl girl)

GREAT STORY...
My 10 year old son and daughter (twins) both took in to school show and tell some of my turkey hunting calls, beards spurs and fans... I got a little note from the teacher how well versed they were LOL

That is a great story. It reminds me a lot of myself when I was in school not so long ago. I always used to do my writing assignments on hunting and fishing. I was going through a bunch of my old papers not too long ago and found a couple of these things. I guess I could tell a pretty good fish story then....imagine what I can come up with now!!! We, all sportsmen, need to get more children involved in hunting and fishing, and ethically so. I see so many kids who don't know ethical hunting and fishing and this is a shame. These kids need to teachers like the folks who are on here. I have been so pleased with the ethical fishing that most OGF members enjoy, it is a real brightspot after coming in from the lake where you see people killing fish unnecessarily and hurting all of us.

I used to love watching Kastaway Koolis. My Dad and I would watch him every Saturday morning. I was so excited to meet him up at the IX Center at the sports show as a kid and to get his autograph....I think I still have it somewhere.

Carl,

That is awesome...makes you feel good to know that there are good guys such as Dance out there!!

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